Cloth-guiding device.



PATENTED MAY 29; 1906.

' E. VAN WINKLE.

CLOTH GUIDING DBVIGE.

APPLICATION FILED 0013,1905.

INVENTOi? UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CLOTH-GUIDING DEViCE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 29, 1906.

Application filed October 3, 1905. Serial No. 281-,1'72.

T0 at whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWARD VAN WINKLE, a citizen of the United States,residing at J ersey City, county of Hudson, State of New Jersey, haveinvented a new and useful Cloth- Guiding Device, of which the 'followingis a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in cloth-guiding devices to be usedin connection with any attachment for sewing-machines which is providedwith a work-shift ing device-such as blindstitching, serging,overseaming, or cording attachments-and has for its objects to provide acloth-guide on two sides of the needle of the sewing-machine that willresist the action of the workshifting device and return the cloth to thepath of the needle when the work-shifting device retracts, and to dothis accurately, so that an ordinary operator may properly feed thecloth without losing stitches.

The foregoing and other features of my invention will now be describedin connection with the accompanying one sheet of drawings, forming partof this specification, in which I have represented my cloth-guideembodying the improvements in the preferred form, after which I shallpoint out more particularly in the claims those fea tures which Ibelieve to be new and of my own invention.

Referring to the accompanying one sheet of drawings, in which similarcharacters of reference indicate like parts throughout the severalviews, Figure 1 is a top view of my cloth-guiding device, showing itsrelative position to the needle and presser-foot of the sewing-machineto which it is attached. Fig 2 is a front elevation of the same. Fig. 3is a section at A A, Fig. 1. Fig. 4 shows front elevation with cloth inposition for blindstitching a hem. Fig. 5 shows the clothguide resistingthe action of work-shifting device of the attachment looking from above.Fig. 6 shows two means employed to attach my cloth-guiding device to thecloth-plate of any sewing-machine.

1 is a cloth-plate, 2 the needle-bar, 3 the needle, 4 the Presser-footof any sewing-machine, 5 the base, and 6 the work-shifting de vice ofany attachment, all in their relative positions.

On the base 5 of the attachment I provide a projection or lug 7, with ahole or bearing 8, through which the arm 9 passes. The arm 9 may besecured in said bearing by the thumbscrew 10. On one end of the arm 9 isa scale 11, which may be used to adjust the clothguiding device to orfrom the path of the needle, and is indicated by the pointer 12, whichmay be attached to the base 5. The other end of arm 9 is provided with abearing 13, supporting the member 14, which is preferably made of roundwire and provided with tapered ends 15 and 16 and formed into a brokenhollow square, 15 leading to the needle and 16 leading away from theneedle, the latter being slightly curved, as shown in Fig. 5, away fromthe cloth, so as not to catch hold of the cloth when the machine isrunning rapidly. The faces of the tapered ends 15 and 16 farthest awayfrom the bearing 13 shouldbe in one plane, and when in adjusted positionin a plane of the path of the needle of the sewing-machine, as shown inFig. 1.

The modus opercmdi is as follows: The

member 14, being pivotally mounted in bearing 13,may be swung up into avertical position for convenience, and the cloth folded over theguiding-faces 15 and 16. It is then returned to its original position,as shown in Fig. 4, and is ready for feeding. As the tapered ends 15 and16 are on the front and rear side of needle and directly in a plane ofits path, the cloth is returned to the path of the needle after thework-shifting device retracts and every stitch which is intended topierce the cloth does so in its proper place.

I am aware that cloth-guiding devices have been placed on the marketwhich guide the cloth to the needle; but they do not have guiding-facesto guide the cloth after leaving the needle.

I wish it distinctly understood that my cloth-guiding device hereinillustrated and described is in the form which I desire to construct itand that any changes or variations may be made as may be convenient ordesirable without departing from the salient features of my invention,and I therefore intend the following claims to cover such modifica tionsas naturally fall within the lines of in vention.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, anddesire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In an overseaming attachment for sewing-machines, a work-shiftingdevice in combination with a guiding device comprising a wire havingtapering cloth guiding ends spaced apart and on opposite sides of saidshifting device.

2. In an overseaming attachment for sewing-machines, a work-shiftingdevice in combination with a pivotally-mounted guiding device comprisingtwo guiding-faces spaced apart and on opposite sides of said shiftingdevice.

3. In an overseaming attachment for sewing-machines, a work-shiftingdevice in combination with a pivotally-mounted guiding device comprisinga wire having tapered cloth-guidingends on opposite sides of saidwork-shifting device and means to adj ust'the aforesaid tapered ends toand from the workshifting device. I

4;. In an overseaming attachment for sewing-machines, a work-shiftingdevice in combination with a cloth-guiding device comprising a bent wiretapered at both ends, forming a broken hollow' square having the extremeouterfaces of the tapered ends in one plane and on opposite sides of thesaid workshifting device.

'5. In anoverseaming attachment for sewing-machines a work-shiftingdevice in eombination with a guiding device comprising a bent Wireforming a broken hollow square, adjustably mounted, having twocloth-guiding ends spaced apart with their extreme outer faces in oneplane, whereby the guiding-faces can be adjusted in the plane of theneedle-bar.

6. In an overseaming attachment for sewing-machines a work-shiftingdevice, in combination with a pivotally-mounted guiding devicecomprising a wire having tapered cloth-guiding ends spaced apart and onopposite sides of said shifting device.

7. In an overseaming attachment for sewing-machines a work-shiftingdevice in combinationwith a guiding device comprising a wire havingtapering cloth-guiding ends spaced apart and pivotally mounted in asupporting member provided with means for lateral adjustment of thecloth-guiding member.

This specification signed and witnessed this 30th day ofSeptember, A. D.1905 EDWD. VAN WINKLE.

In presence'of- I. M. TITUs, MARGUERITE Ross.

